@sree251 Regret voting for Trump yet?

@sree251 Better than the libertarian?

@Northwest
That's right. We do that routinely hundreds of times a year. And it cost money. For what? The Russians are not flying over US airspace. Would you intercept your neighbor walking by your house on a public sidewalk? What's wrong with you?

@sree251
I'm not a Putin shill. But you are.

@FreddieUK Russia has had a hard on for the Arctic for years and they are flexing

@AthrillatheHunt You're so right. It's a place most people don't think about, but the USA, Russia and China have all got their eyes fixed on the mineral wealth in that area. Hence the Greenland nonsense that Trump came out with a few years ago and every now and again digs up when he needs another distraction.

@FreddieUK they wanna do in the Arctic what China is doing in s China sea . Change their maritime borders .

@sree251 I'm not a sovereign country, so I can't print money or set interest rates.

You know, for a seemingly intelligent person, you're economically illiterate. But this is the way the news sources you follow present this, as if the US is a household and has a similar cash flow.

When has the government destroyed our currency? Have you seen the stock market recently? And if you're upset about fiscal policy, which party controls Congress and the White House? I hope voting for Twitler was worth it just to protest against "woke," whatever that is.

@LeopoldBloom
Your are not a sovereign country? What do you think it is financially? Is its balance sheet any different from yours as an individual?

@sree251 It's very different, because a sovereign country can print money and set its interest rate. It can also control income through tax policy.

@Roundandroundwego It goes back to the Civil War, when a Union freighter captained by Peter Pinguid went around Cape Horn with the goal of opening a new front in California. It got lost in a fog and approached a Russian vessel that was exploring the possibility of extending the Russian presence in North America south of Fort Ross in Sonoma County. Unable to make each other out, the two vessels exchanged fire before going their separate ways. This was the first military encounter between the US and Russia. I read about this in Thomas Pynchon's book The Crying of Lot 49. The book went on to describe the "Peter Pinguid Society" which was so right wing, it opposed capitalism because it could lead to communism.

@LeopoldBloom uncle Tom's cabin was countered by pro slavery critics who gave the first American critical review of capitalism, claiming it's wrong to use it on white people. But that's not the source of communism in America. Just a coincidence. History works if you read a lot.

@Roundandroundwego You're like the flat earth guy who is on here occasionally. You've read a lot, but either the wrong books or the right ones with the wrong attitude.

Antebellum slavery was supported by the southern ruling class, as it kept wages low for people who weren't enslaved. Because the country was a lot more sectional at that time, factory workers in the Northeast weren't competing with enslaved cotton field laborers in the South. However, while the Confederacy by its own statements seceded to protect slavery and for no other reason, the opposition to secession in the North wasn't to end slavery, but to keep the union together. If Andrew Johnson had been president instead of Lincoln, he would have allowed the Confederacy to secede. You probably would have preferred that as the US wouldn't have been a world power in that case with two hostile nations occupying North America, more interested in fighting with each other than having much involvement with the rest of the world. Of course, you probably think the wrong side won World War Two.